Today's Political Firestorm: Todd Akin Decides To Stay in the Race

Today's Controversy: Todd Akin, who occupies that awful little space between evil and stupid, has decided to stay in the Missouri Senate race in which he's challenging Rep. Claire McCaskill. This is bad news for Romney-Ryan, since they're now going to have to spend the next few weeks doing that weird little dance where they distance themselves from Akin and denounce his comments while simultaneously holding the same general position on abortion, which they will be asked to clarify again, and again, and again. Meanwhile, Barack Obama can just be like, "yeah, I think all that shit's whack," or some variation thereof.